Welcome to our Referee Resource Center! We want to thank you for participating and supporting our soccer league this season, for without referees we cannot hold any soccer games. This Fall, we have over 1,450 children participating in the Santa Clara Youth Soccer League; that’s a lot of soccer games to run.

We assembled some very important information to share with our referees. Please feel free to provide feedback to make our program better!Bob Sherman
SCYSL Referee Coordinatorrefcoordinator@scyouthsoccer.org

SCYSL will be hosting a Grade 8 Referee Licensing Clinic on the below dates during August, 2014 at the Santa Clara Youth Soccer Park. The registration cost is $25 (payable online and refunded after you pass the test and referee five SCYSL games during the Fall season) in class fees, and $45 for USSF registration. This $45 covers your annual registration with the USSF and includes 2014 as well as 2015. If you do not pass the exam at the end of the class, this amount will be returned to you.

Updated 8/30/13The following referee pay rates are used for all Santa Clara Sporting league and scrimmage games. This only applies to games where the home team pays the referee cash after the game (NorCal games, scrimmages, etc). The referee pay rate is tied to the game length. Norcal Spring League has increased the game length for some age groups (u10 and u12) which means that the referees should be getting paid at the rate of the age group 1 year older. Most referees show up to do the game and don't exactly know how much they should be getting paid, so when they are underpaid by a few dollars, they don't even know it because many are used to getting paid online at the end of the month. Last year, we sent out emails and dealt with this at the beginning of Spring. This year, we did not do that, so many teams underpaid all Spring, and the referees didn't realize it.

The Referee pay rate is tied to the length of halves, not the age group. If your age group is playing longer halves than what is normally listed for your age, then you need to pay at the rate of the higher age group that plays that length of halves.

Game Level & Length of halves

Position

Pay

U8-U10 (25 mins.)

CR

$30

U8-U10 (25 mins.)

AR

$25

U11-U12 (30 mins.)

CR

$35

U11-U12 (30 mins.)

AR

$28

U13-U14 (35 mins.)

CR

$40

U13-U14 (35 mins.)

AR

$33

U15-U16 (40 mins.)

CR

$45

U15-U16 (40 mins.)

AR

$38

U17+ (45 mins.)

CR

$50

U17+ (45 mins.)

AR

$42

CCSL Comp/Select Game Referee Send-Off Instructions

For those referees that officiate a CCSL Comp or Select League game, please note the following: